Do You Need To Secure Wipe a Mac Drive?


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https://macmost.com/e-2688 When you sell, donate or recycle a Mac, you should absolutely erase your drive before it leaves your possession. With orders Macs that use spinning hard disk drives, you should secure erase it. But for newer Macs with solid-state drives you can’t secure erase and it really isn’t necessary. In most cases your old data was encrypted anyway.

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00:00 Intro
00:36 Three Situations
01:08 Erase Your Drive
01:55 Secure Erase
03:57 SSD Before T2 or M1
05:15 How FileVault Protects After Erasing
06:45 SSD With T2 or M1
07:27 Summary

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